The only, tangential benefit that I can see from this invention is that the hype around it has encouraged folks to think out of the box and across the supply chain and geographical borders. So there are lots of adventurous, cross-industry initiatives starting up that wouldn’t otherwise. But they stand more chance of delivering if they hold onto the vision and drop this ridiculous architecture.

By confining enterprise architecture to the realms of IT we limit the study of systems to only those things considered to be under the control of IT. We build models of instruments used for soil analysis but forget about the atmosphere the soil is lying under and the people daily treading it underfoot.

There will be unintended consequences, naturally, as some financial institutions fail to realise the upside benefits and will miss the opportunity to bring new financial products to market, but overall, the more industries morph and overlap and add-value to their relationships with their customers, the better.

In a sustained low interest rate environment, the attractive yields of conventional VC and PE are now starting to be disrupted by newer sources of capital such as corporate venturing, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and sovereign funds.

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